Embossing appliance for photographs and the like



EMBOSSING APPLIANCE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LIKE Filed April 1. 1926 Patented July 5, 1927.

UNITE STATES HEINRICH AUGUST ERNST KRAFT, GE DRESDEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR T0 FIRMA KRAFT & STEUDEL, FABRIK ZHOTOGRAPHISCHER ZAPIERE Gr. M. B. 1-1., OF DRES- DEN, GERMANY.

EMBOSSING APPLIANCE FOR PHOTOGRAFHS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed April 1, 1926, Serial No. 98,178, and in Germany September 21, 1925.

This invention relates to embossing appliances and more particularly to an apparatus for embossing margins on photographs and the like. 1

It is a current practice to mount photographic prints on a sheet of card provided with a plate-sunk margin for the photograph. On the other hand, the photographs instead of being stuck on, have been printed direct on a sensitized card large enough to leave a margin, the latter being then platesunk around the picture.

The object ofthe present invention is to furnish photographers, and chiefly, amateur photographers, with a device enabling the plate-sunk margin to be formed without the use of any specially designed embossing presses having special embossing tools and the like.

With this object, the invention consists in providing two sheets each cut away to form a window opening of equal size, the photographic print being inserted between the said two sheets. There is also a third sheet on which is provided a plate or portion raised to an extent that corresponds to the sectional thickness of the two sheets in which the wlndow apertures are formed. By superimposing these three sheets in such a manner that the apertures and raised plate register, a plate-sunk margin can be produced on the inserted photograph in an ordinary press such as a copying press.

The three sheets are preferably composed of a single piece of card, divided into three sections by folds, the two sect-ions with the window apertures being adjacent to each other.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one con struction of embossing plate according to this invention,

Figure 2 is a horizontal cross section of same,

Figure 3 is a plan of the same in a partially folded condition, and

Figure 4 is a cross section through same in the partially folded condition.

The new appliance consists of three Inutually connected sheets of card a, I), and 0 (see particularly Figures 1 and 2). The two adjacent sheets a and b are provided with two window apertures, (Z and e, of equal size. Th sheet a carries plate 7", consist .r, of

The method of using the, appliance consists in first placing the picture on the sheet b, as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1, with the printed side towards the observer.

On the sheet a being now folded over on to the sheet 5, the picture will be visible through the aperture cl, as shown in Figure 3. The picture can therefore be exactly centered, in order to get the sunk margin in the correct position. The adjusted picture is then held firmly in the right position between the sheets a and b. The sheet carrying the embossing plate 7 is now folded over on to the sheet a, as shown in Figure 4, whereupon the two apertures will be in register with the plate On placing the whole in an ordinary press, the plate-mark round the picture can be formed, and in the correct position in relation to the picture. In this operation, the back of the picture comes into contact with the press, an arrangement essential for preventing the picture from injury or soiling.

It is therefore necessary to employ three sheets, as described, and not only two sheets, namely a bottom sheet carrying the embossing plate, and a plate with a window aperture, for in that case the picture would have to be inserted between the two sheets and with the picture side facing the embossing plate, so that one could not ascertain whether the picture was properly centered.

With the new appliance, on the other hand, the picture can be accurately adjusted in the correct position and secured therein between the two sheets a and b.

l/Vhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z 1. In an appliance for use in embossing photographic prints to produce a plate-sunk margin, the combination of a pair of sheets having equal apertures therein and between which sheets the print to be embossed may be placed, a third sheet formed with a raised surface similar in shape to the openings in the said pair of sheets, and means hingedly connecting the sheets together to form a unitary structure.

l ice for use in embossing s produce a plate-sunk;

n, the conibinznion of a pair of sheets rig equal apertures therein ant between which sheets the print to be embossed may be placed, a third sheet formed with a portion of its surface raised to an extent equal to the sum oi the thicknesses of the pair of sheets, the said raised portion being; similar in shape to the apertures in the pair of sheets but smaller in size than the said apertures, and means hingedly connecting the sheets together to form a unitary structure.

In an appliance for use in embossing photographic prints to produce a plate-sunk margin, the combinati oi a pair 0? sheets having similar apertures therein and between which sheets the print to be embossed may be placed, a third sheet, a raised plate mounted on th v said third sheet, the said plate being adapted to register with the apertures in the pair ct sheets, and means hingedly connecting the sheets together along adjacent marginal edges to term a unitary structure whereby the openings Will coincide with the raised plate when the device is :tolded.

4t. In an appliance for use in embossing photo 'anhic prints to produce a plate en l ma, 1, the 55' id appliance comprising a card folded to form three portions, two at jacent portions being formed with similar apertures and being adapted to receive between them the print to be embossed, the

third portion being formed With a portion of its surface raised, said raised portion being similar in shape to the apertures in the said adjacent portions.

5. In an appliance for use in embossing photographic prints to produce a plate-sunk margin, the said appliance consisting of a single card divided into three sheets by tolding creases, two adjacent sheets having equal apertures adapted to coincide when the two sheets are folded one over the other and the third sheet being formed with a portion of its surface raised, said raised portion being adapted to coincide With the aperture formed by the superimposed perforated sheets.

6. In an appliance for use in embossing photographic prints to produce a plate-sunk margin, the said appliance consisting oi? a single card divided into three sheets by toldii'ig creases, two adjacent sheets being formed with equal apertures and adapted to coincide when the two sheets are folded one over the other, and a raised plate mounted on the third sheet, the said plate being adapted to fit Within the coincident apertures in the adjacent sheets when the three sheets are folded one over the other.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name hereto.

HEINRICH AUGUST ERNST KRAFT. 

